Tom Stoppard: A Tribute

Dec 14, 2025 | News

Words by Chris Schuler These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one. On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88. His work has inspired me...

Hallie Rubenhold at the Authors’ Club

Oct 27, 2025 | News

By Suzi Feay Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has followed up her pioneering account of Jack the Ripper’s victims, ‘The Five’, with an in depth new look at the case of gambler, fraudster and wife-murderer Dr Crippen. Rubenhold centres female victims rather than male...

Members’ News

Oct 13, 2025 | Member News

Authors’ Club member Stephanie Williams’ The Education of Girls: Coming of age in 4 years that changed America 1966-1970 is published this month. This is the story of how the Vietnam war, racial strife and the birth of women’s liberation fundamentally changed women’s...

Remembering Jilly Cooper

Oct 11, 2025 | News

By John Walsh The news of Jilly Cooper’s death on 5 October was covered, in the 24 hours that followed, with the kind of comprehensive admiration usually reserved for a fondly-recalled member of royalty. Not only did every newspaper carry her image on its front page;...

Marina Warner at the Authors’ Club

Sep 4, 2025 | Lunches

We were thrilled to welcome the distinguished cultural historian, academic and fiction writer Dame Marina Warner to a well-attended lunch. Marina’s many award-winning books include Alone of All her Sex: The myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, and Joan of Arc: The Image...

Apologies for Absence – Remembering Geoff Gudgion

Aug 18, 2025 | Member News

Words by Laurel Lindström We’ve lost a wonderful colleague and friend, the author Geoff Gudgion, to a devastating disease that took a mere few weeks to claim him. So how do we say we miss you? How do we say we’re so sorry to his family, when we don’t know them? How do...

Congratulations to the Booker Prize nominees

Jul 31, 2025 | News

We are thrilled to see Claire Adam, winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award (BFNA) in 2020, on this year’s Booker Prize longlist for her quietly compelling second novel Love Forms (Faber). Claire was our lunch speaker in June, interviewed by club chair Lucy...

Ben Markovits at the Authors’ Club

Jul 21, 2025 | Lunches

Words by Suzi Feay Writer and former professional basketball player Benjamin Markovits was brought up in Texas, London and Berlin; the author of ‘The Sidekick’, ‘Christmas in Austin’, ‘Playing Days’ and a trilogy of novels about  Byron, he joined us in the Lady Violet...

Best First Novel Award Winner Announced

May 22, 2025 | Prizes

The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Best First Novel Award is Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree). This year’s guest adjudicator, novelist Tracy Chevalier, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National Liberal Club...

Anne Sebba at the Authors’ Club

May 11, 2025 | Events

By Miranda Miller Last year I joined the Authors’ Club, which organises interesting literary events in the glamorous National Liberal Club, built by Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum. It’s a short walk from Embankment Station, a monument...